Word: meaninglessness
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...each other across a ring, stand united on this point. Specialization, so they say, has gone too far when each separate field loses its meaning. Scholars have lost the true perspective; they no longer perceive the vital relations between the individual branches of learning. Education has become a meaningless chaos of information...
...abolish elections positively and definitely. There will probably be attempts to revive them in some form or other-one proposal being that the Yardlings should elect their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine spirit into the forms. Until then...
...charge of Fascist is really a laugh. When I consider the number of people who have been called Fascist, I can include Roosevelt, Landon, Governor Hurley ... Then why should I be disturbed to be tarred with a meaningless word?" Hart stated...
...Vagabond will be sad. He is strictly an interlude lad. A lecture is now only a page of scrawled notes at the end of an hour. Soon, however, it will be a vital cog in the machinery of some course. Vag prefers them as they are now--as meaningless scratchings which have been joyfully interrupted in mid-sentence by the bonging of a bell...
...fact that the ballot box has been stuffed must not prevent freshmen from standing up and fighting for the abolition of a meaningless form. The present system of elections makes a farce of democracy. The duly elected representatives of the class have absolutely no function but to appoint the chairmen of the Jubilee and the Smoker--something which the Union Committee could do just as well. Hence the election resolves down to a formal recognition of the most prominent freshmen...